U.S.S. Dragon

• Please see the entry for the USS Dragon in the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.
• Scene off City Point, James River, Virginia including the tug Dragon.

Crew

• Frieze, Charles J., seaman
  Wounded severely March 8, 1862.^[T5][T14] Transfered to hospital ship Ben Morgan ^[T6]
• Hungerford, Benjamin S., quartermaster
  Wounded severely March 8, 1862.^[T5][T14] Transfered to hospital ship Ben Morgan ^[T6]
• McDonald, Joseph, fireman
  Wounded severely (lost a leg) March 8, 1862^[T5][T14]. Transfered to hospital ship Ben Morgan ^[T6]
  "How I Saw the Monitor-Merrimac Fight" in New England Magazine, July, 1907, Vol XXXVI, No. 5., pp548-553. New England Magazine Company. (Copy at MT)
• Watson, William, Acting Master, Master Commanding
  Commanding March 8, 1862. One listing indicates he was wounded severly but this may be a confusion.^[T14]

See the crew of the Dragon as of January 1865. One report lists an unnamed engineer as wounded on March 8.^[T6]

References:

^[T5] Wood, Wm. Maxwell, Fleet Surgeon, Report transmitting list of killed and wounded, March 12, 1862. ORN I, v7, p15-17

^[T6] Wood, Wm. Maxwell, Fleet Surgeon, Report of killed and wounded on and alongside the Minnesota in the action of the 8th and 9th March, 1862, March 10, 1862. ORN I, v7, p12-13

^[T14] United States Government. Message of the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress at the Commencement of the Third Session of the Thirty-Seventh Congress. Vol. 3. 1862. House of Representatives, 37th Congress, 3rd session. Ex. Doc. 1. Washington, DC. 1862. 931pp
Report on the Killed and Wounded p96-97.

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